Sentences with phrase «by natural selection on»

Developed by natural selection on Madagascar, the «cottony texture» of the white coat, rectangular silhouette and convex topline defines the breed.

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The theory of evolution by natural selection is a beautiful explanation for the diversity of life based on observable facts.

Educate yourself on what evolution by natural selection actually says before you attempt to comment on it.

Bingham is on target in arguing that culture constitutes the fast track of evolutionary development — a track governed by basic evolutionary dynamics, including the «nature bats last» factor of natural selection.

On a purely secular view, humans are simply the accidental by - products of natural selection, monkeys who by chance grew brains too big for their own good.

It is no longer simply a matter of cells organized by the hazards of natural selection, but of completed zoological units inventively building themselves into organisms on a planetary scale.

If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single - celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.

It is essentially the full ti.tle of Charles Darwin's seminal work: «On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life».

Baden Powell accepted biological evolution enthusiastically, writing, «a work has now appeared by a naturalist of the most acknowledged authority, Mr. Darwin's masterly volume on the Origin of Species by the law of «natural selection», which now substantiates on undeniable grounds the very principle so long denounced by the first naturalists....

As for the Eye — Creationists only ever refer to the rhetorical portion of Darwin's statement in which he said «to suppose that the eye... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree» — but they never point out that he then went on to describe the evolutionary path of the eye — a theory which over a hundred years of careful research has confirmed.

I marveled at a chart that showed a diagram of the tree of life, where relationships between different mammalian species were figured out solely by comparison of their DNA sequences, providing powerful support for Darwin's idea of descent from a common ancestor with natural selection operating on randomly occurring variations.

Modernism developed on the basis of the Newtonian universe, conceived as a complex inanimate machine, operating in absolute space and absolute time according to its own internal laws, which were also believed to be eternal and absolute.4 Understanding this «natural world» was the key to everything; physicists set about uncovering the laws by which the physical world operates; Adam Smith looked for the natural laws by which the economy operates; Darwin thought he had discovered, in the law of natural selection, the origin of species.

Asuka responded to that and a Natural Selection by putting a modified octopus hold on Charlotte, and hoo man is that painful looking and also likely painful, just maybe!

Famous for: His 5 year around the world trip where he visited the Galapagos Islands and based his evidence found on his theory of evolution by natural selection

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

They think natural selection may have put pressure on weaker fliers to lose their teeth in a bid to improve their skills by losing excess weight.

Using statistical models to home in on genetic mutations that spread quickly throughout populations, Pritchard and his colleagues have identified hundreds of regions of the genome that have recently been transformed by natural selection.

More recently, a report by Kevin N. Laland of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his colleagues in Nature Reviews Genetics, building on an earlier proposal by Robert Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Peter J. Richerson of U.C. Davis, argued that human culture, defined as any learned behavior, including technology, has been the dominant natural selection force on modern humans.

The new study «adds fuel to an active debate» about the role of accessory genes, says Alan McNally, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham in England — whether or not the collections of genetic add - ons that bacteria maintain are shaped by natural selection, the process that fuels evolution.

Antibiotic resistance evolves naturally via natural selection through random mutation, but it could also be engineered by applying an evolutionary stress on a population.

But the neat concept of adaptation to the environment driven by natural selection, as envisaged by Darwin in On the Origin of Species and now a central feature of the theory of evolution, is too simplistic.

Building on this idea, some of his colleagues argued that language is an adaptation shaped by natural selection, just like eyes and wings.

On July 2, 1866, Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, wrote to Charles Darwin to lament how he had been «so repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly or at all, the self acting & necessary effects of Nat Selection, that I am led to conclude that the term itself & your mode of illustrating it, however clear & beautiful to many of us are yet not the best adapted to impress it on the general naturalist public.&raquOn July 2, 1866, Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, wrote to Charles Darwin to lament how he had been «so repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly or at all, the self acting & necessary effects of Nat Selection, that I am led to conclude that the term itself & your mode of illustrating it, however clear & beautiful to many of us are yet not the best adapted to impress it on the general naturalist publiselection, wrote to Charles Darwin to lament how he had been «so repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly or at all, the self acting & necessary effects of Nat Selection, that I am led to conclude that the term itself & your mode of illustrating it, however clear & beautiful to many of us are yet not the best adapted to impress it on the general naturalist publiSelection, that I am led to conclude that the term itself & your mode of illustrating it, however clear & beautiful to many of us are yet not the best adapted to impress it on the general naturalist public.&raquon the general naturalist public.»

• Extra: For an even greater understanding of evolution by natural selection, repeat this experiment on a different colored surface (try using fabric or paper) and see if the population changes in a different way.

If correct, these changes could alter the course of evolution by giving natural selection new targets to act on.

I guess natural selection just selected for those that somehow get excited when females pass by, says Wikelski, It gives a signal to the brain that something's going on, makes the animal really excited and leads to pre-ejaculation.

Matthew Stevens, a «non-religionist», adds to the now trendy practice of bashing atheist Richard Dawkins by saying that religion, «has evolved by natural selection because of the benefits it confers on its practitioners» (8 February, p 31).

Roth, whose research is focused on understanding the processes by which natural selection influences the use of space in animals, is taking the lead on studying the chickadees» neuroanatomy.

Twenty years later his On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life would have monocles plopping into soup all across the Victorian world and would forever answer the deepest question of all, Why Are We Here?

The iconic myth is that Darwin became an evolutionist in the Galpagos when he discovered natural selection operating on finch beaks and tortoise carapaces, each species uniquely adapted by food type or island ecology.

Our results show that male competition is a key driver of speciation — by a factor that is five times greater than results on which other, more - traditional theories of natural selection causing speciation are based.»

A decade ago, the lead author on the new study, Masato Yoshizawa, wanted to understand brain evolution by investigating the effects of natural selection on behavior.

During his travels on the Beagle, Darwin noticed subtle anatomical differences between giant tortoises living on different islands in the archipelago, which would later inform his theory of evolution by natural selection.

But if you strip away all the paraphernalia then really what culture is about at its core is about innovations that are not encoded in the genome somehow and are passed on, not by genetic transmission, and are not sort of shaped by natural selection, which is the normal stuff of evolution; but it is transmitted socially through social learning.

At one point, he explained that so many more babies survive childbirth now that natural selection, as proposed by Charles Darwin, can not act on humans to favor infants with traits that are beneficial today or to weed out those with adaptations that impair survival.

Even more interesting is that natural selection by these parasitic wasps on gall form is ongoing and still very strong, providing both a window into past processes of diversification and a divination of future adaptive diversification in this gall midge lineage.

She was followed by Elinor Karlsson (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA) who gave an overview on natural selection stating that evolution can be thought of as «the most epic genetic engineering experiment ever».

My understanding of the established darwinian evolution by natural selection is that for an adaptation to occur, the fitness of individuals (i.e. the ability to pass on their genes to offspring) must be changed.

But even those who loathe Herbert Spencer and his theories on natural selection should question these characters and their motivations, whether motivated by guilt or a sort of perverse white supremacist ignorance.

Depending on its selection, the calibration of the engine control unit changes with a reduction of torque by 35 Nm (from 145 in Dynamic mode to 110 Nm in Natural mode).

In reality, hunter - gatherers were unbelievably skilled (a point also made by Jared Diamond in his classic Guns, Germs and Steel, in which, if I recollect correctly, he makes a compelling case that as a result of natural selection and their environment, the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea are, on average, more intelligent than so called «first world *» inhabitants).

Darwin's theory of natural selection was extended to society and morals not by Darwin himself but by the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, father of «the Law of Equal Freedom,» which holds that «every man is free to do that which he wills,» provided it doesn't infringe on the equal freedom of others.

There is something even more peculiar about our species than all these things, and that is this: we are the only species on the planet that can not be fully explained by Charles Darwin's otherwise faultless theory of evolution by natural selection.

Darwin conducted almost 30 years of research and he published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life on this day in 185On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life on this day in 185on this day in 1859.

My hunch is that Darwin's natural selection, powered by reader preferences, will prevent serialized ebooks from catching on.

I'm not exactly sure how my opinion on this subject relates to Orthodoxy, but my understanding is this in relation to canines: the domestic dog is not the product of natural selection, but selective breeding by man.

Best known for their unique wildlife (and as the inspiration for Charles Darwin's groundbreaking research on natural selection and evolution), the Galápagos Islands are a protected area governed by strict rules and regulations meant to protect the delicate ecosystem.

Island dwarfism is thought to result from intense natural selection caused by evolutionary pressures of living on islands (e.g., increased competition for limited resources)[43].

Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, the so - called father of animal geography, formulated his ideas on evolution by natural selection while observing and collecting wildlife in the islands of Southeast Asia.

Darwin's notes on the Galapagos helped him develop the theory of evolution by natural selection, as he noted the different finches inhabiting the islands had adapted to suit the island's particular food available.